[j-nsp] ERX - Radius - prepaid services

[Kim Onnel]

I was confused at some point that SDX is actually the radius and it just
introduces new configurations to do the prepaid services, but now i have in
mind that they are separated,

SDX + Merit Radius is what we currently use, we dont use the wholesale
customers provisioning, only the BoD features

What we would like to do is save the price of the license of the SDX and do
the BoD service and prepaid charging with a cheap or opensource
alternatives, so does anyone have any suggestions ?



On 12/28/05, Rafal Szarecki (WA/EPO) <rafal.szarecki at ericsson.com> wrote:
>
> If you use PPPoX access method, you can build relatyvly easy system base
> on session-timeout. Of course the status of customer account has to be
> related to usage. Of course this is not as elegant an flexible as with
> SDX, but ... The general drowbacks are: 1) accuracy if session-timeout
> will be long (e.g. 6h) then for accsess rate 500k customer can overuse
> service by 3,6*6*500/8 of MB. 2) to upgrade/downgrade speed customer has
> to be logged-out (ppp sessison drop).
>
> Similar scenario is also avaliable with DHCP, but this related on
> profile configuration or ERX. Even less flexible then PPP/RADIUS.
>
> Rafal
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Kim Onnel
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 5:04 PM
> > To: sthaug at nethelp.no
> > Cc: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: Re: [j-nsp] ERX - Radius - prepaid services
> >
> > the problem is as follows:
> >
> > we're selling BoD (bandwidth on demand) services, users
> > always tend to think we are fooling them when we send them a
> > bill of usage of the service, so we decided to use prepaid
> > scratch cards, now does anyone do the same, i'd like to know
> > your experience ?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/27/05, sthaug at nethelp.no <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Whats the BCP to do prepaid services for broadband users not using
> > > Juniper
> > > > SDX, for its license is expensive, what do u guys suggest ?
> > >
> > > Well, what do you want to do? Either you configure the ERX by hand
> > > (not really feasible for large numbers of customers), or
> > you have some
> > > kind of provisioning system. If you don't want to use SDX,
> > you'll have
> > > to roll your own (or possibly find some suitable open
> > source software).
> > >
> > > We run a reasonably large ERX installation without SDX,
> > using our own
> > > provisioning system.
> > >
> > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
> > >
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